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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Samsung Heavy signs floating data-centre engineering deal
Samsung Heavy and Mousterian have moved their US floating data-centre partnership into engineering, although no site, customer or construction order has been announced.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Telstra and Teneo warn AI is disrupting network forecasts
Telstra and Teneo executives say operators need new planning assumptions as AI changes where traffic originates, how it moves and when capacity is required.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer for Cloud-Native Applications
Traefik Labs emerged from an open-source reverse proxy built for rapidly changing container architecture, then transformed into a company seeking to manage application traffic, APIs, AI, and Model Context Protocol through a single gateway layer. The same position that makes…

North America Datacenter Trends
Rockford’s six-month pause turns a data-centre proposal into a municipal rulebook test
Rockford City Council has approved a six-month moratorium on new data-centre development while the city writes standards for an infrastructure-intensive land use. The draft ordinance is more precise than a simple ban: officials may continue conditional processing, but cannot…

North America Datacenter Trends
Louisville’s 7–1 committee vote creates a procedural gate, not a data-centre ban
Louisville Metro Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee has advanced an amended 180-day data-centre moratorium by seven votes to one. Nothing has paused yet. The measure remains Old Business for the full council’s 13 August agenda, carries no enactment record, and would take…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
FiberCop has one live Rome edge node and a 99-site execution question
FiberCop’s first converted telecom exchange in Rome is now reported live as an edge data centre. The milestone gives physical form to a programme that aims to reuse 100 copper exchanges. It does not make the other 99 sites operational, nor turn the operator’s 10,500-exchange…

North America Datacenter Trends
AMD’s $6.7bn data-centre quarter turns the AI forecast into an execution test
AMD’s second-quarter record is less interesting as a victory lap than as a change in the burden of proof. Data Center supplied 58% of company revenue, and its $6.7 billion was more than double the prior-year level. Management now guides to roughly $13 billion for the third…

North America Datacenter Trends
Caterpillar’s $20.5bn quarter shows where the data-centre power bottleneck is becoming revenue
Caterpillar’s first quarter above $20 billion did more than set a company record. It exposed one route by which the data-centre buildout reaches the industrial economy: through large generator sets, turbines, construction fleets and the service capacity needed to keep them…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
CoreWeave’s 360MW Indonesia plan is a capacity promise with a 2028 test
CoreWeave has chosen Indonesia for its first announced data-centre presence in Asia-Pacific: three facilities carrying 360MW of contracted IT power and an expected 2028 start. The number is strategically large, but its state is equally important. It is not active capacity, and…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
The reported Anthropic–Volta deal rests on a Tydal lease with multiple exit tests
Bloomberg identifies Anthropic as the AI lab behind Volta’s announced $10bn strategic partnership. Volta and Bitdeer do not name the lab, so that identity remains reported rather than first-party confirmed. What the first parties do disclose is unusually detailed: a 121MW IT…

North America Cloud Services Trends
AWS’s Lusby withdrawal ends one site-plan process, not the data-centre argument
Calvert County says Amazon Data Services, also referred to as AWS, formally withdrew the Conceptual Site Development Plan for the Calvert Technology Center on 4 August. The application had passed acceptance and a first review but had not reached construction. Local reporting…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer of Cloud-Native Applications
Traefik Labs grew from an open-source proxy designed to follow fast-changing container infrastructure into a company seeking to govern application, API, artificial-intelligence and Model Context Protocol traffic through one gateway layer. The same position that makes Traefik…

Global Institutional
SONiC and the unfinished separation of switch software from hardware
Born inside Microsoft Azure, SONiC turned a hyperscaler’s switching stack into a shared Linux-based platform used across cloud, enterprise and AI networks. Its portability remains conditional: common software still ends at vendor SAI code, proprietary SDKs, platform drivers and…

Global Institutional
The FreeBSD Foundation and the operating system behind internet infrastructure
The FreeBSD Foundation turns voluntary funding into engineering, security, hardware, legal and community capacity for an operating system used across networks, storage systems, clouds and commercial appliances. Its central challenge is sustaining that shared technical base when…

Europe and Middle East Institutional
Ekinops and the economics of carrying more data through the optical layer
Ekinops began as a specialist in optical transport and became a broader connectivity group through access equipment, software and security acquisitions. Its history makes the French public company a useful test of what “lower cost per bit” really means: coherent transmission can…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Ishikari City and 11 companies launch data-centre consortium
The new group will coordinate power, communications, disaster planning, and workforce development across Ishikari’s growing data-centre cluster.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Start Campus targets 2027 opening for 200MW SIN02
Start Campus plans to open its 200MW SIN02 data centre in 2027, alongside Nscale’s planned deployment of more than 66,000 Rubin GPUs.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Sunway Construction wins RM1.02bn Johor data-centre fit-out
Sunway Construction will deliver a RM1.02 billion MEP fit-out for an unnamed US technology company’s data centre in Johor.

North America Datacenter Trends
Dozens protest Meta’s planned Alberta data centre
Local opposition has emerged after Meta secured key permits for its 1GW Alberta data centre, focusing attention on grid use, water and project oversight.

Global Datacenter Trends
Data centre executives challenge ‘energy guzzler’ label
Industry executives argue that power source, computing output and cooling design give a fuller picture of data-centre resource use.
